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To: RFEngineer
Spectrum licenses apply to transmitters only. It kinda makes sense if you think about it.

On the contrary, you've offered my own argument why it doesn't make sense. Given that I can passively shield my building, you will have little trouble realizing that inside an RF quiet room I am also free to generate as much RF as I please on any frequency I like. If you ponder that very carefully, you will realize that restricting emission is not sensible. Restricting RFI is what makes sense.

If you reach that epiphany, you will realize that the question boils down to this: should you be entitled to protection from RFI on my private property? After you discover you are unable to justify a positive answer, you will reply, "Say what you want, jamming is illegal." You might even bold or capitalize illegal, just to prove your point even more.

400 posted on 12/18/2005 6:17:00 PM PST by Shalom Israel (Well, I got better...)
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To: Shalom Israel

" you will have little trouble realizing that inside an RF quiet room I am also free to generate as much RF as I please on any frequency I like"

True, but you wouldn't need a jammer in an RF quiet room, would you? If this is the end goal, build one, and put a theater in it. no one will care.

"should you be entitled to protection from RFI on my private property"

You are unschooled in the art of RF design - interference is EVERYTHING in todays communications systems. You are not able to stop RF from coming into your premises - and you are unable to stop it from exiting your premises.

If you keep it confined to an anechoic chamber, have at it......generate all the RF you want - no one will know/care.

Interfere with a lawful licensee of spectrum, and you are likely to hear about it. This is the situation that you are faced with in a theater. If you want to make it a big anechoic chamber, go ahead. It'll cost you a ton of money and you'll get no paypack.

You are wrapped around technical details, of which you have only a rudimentary understanding. But you don't need to be an RF Engineer to figure this one out: It's about behavior modification......policies in a place of business, consistent enforcement of the same, and you'll eliminate the problem over time, and probably gain loyal customers.

If you have 1000 acres in the middle of nowhere with a theater in the middle of it all, you can jam all you want - nobody will care, least of all your non-existent customers.

Jamming is a bad idea. It's a ham-handed solution that often kills "good" services along with "bad" ....and yes, it's illegal. You cannot ignore the regulatory side of things when you talk about spectrum. You don't like that, so you complain. That's fine. press the issue and you will lose though.

Merry Christmas, and may Santa leave a surplus EF-111 in your stocking to play with in the new year.


402 posted on 12/18/2005 7:52:05 PM PST by RFEngineer
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